mdw-ḥp

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff, custodian”) +‎ ḥp (“Apis”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of Apis’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː hɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: medu-hep

Noun

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1. a priestly title: ‘herdsman of Apis’ [Old and Middle Kingdoms]

Inflection

Declension of mdw-ḥp (masculine)

singular	mdw-ḥp
dual	mdwwj-ḥp
plural	mdww-ḥp

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-ḥp  

mdw-ḥp	mdw-ḥp	mdw-ḥp

References

• “mdw-ḥp (lemma ID 450708)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1699, page 454
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.14